Does Innovative Development Drive Green Economic Growth in Resource-Based Cities? Evidence From China

Zhang, Ming; Yan, Taihua; Ren, Qingzhong

doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.745498

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“…Moreover, the agglomeration of firms in different industries is conducive to the collision of technologies between fields which can induce the reform of green technologies. The improvement of firm technology level has improved firm environmental performance (Yi et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022). Based on the above analyses, this paper proposes another hypothesis: Hypothesis 2.…”

Section: Theoretical Hypothesismentioning

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EDZs and Firms’ Environment Performance: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Firms

Wei

Xie

Zhou

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Economic Development Zones have been proven to be an economic success and have been pursued by many governments around the world over the past several decades, but there is still a research gap on their impact on the environment. This paper documents the effect of national-level EDZs on the environmental performance of firms. Combining rich firm and administrative data in China from 1998–2012, we exploit the relationship between the foundation of EDZs and firms’ pollution emissions with a multi-period differences-in-differences model. We find that the establishment of national EDZs can effectively reduce the pollution emission intensity of firms within it. Moreover, this pollution reduction effects vary across industries, firms, and EDZs types. We also find that the establishment of EDZs can improve firm environmental performance by improving energy efficiency, optimizing the business environment, and upgrading technology.

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Section: Theoretical Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 94%

EDZs and Firms’ Environment Performance: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Firms

Wei

Xie

Zhou

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…A large number of documents have analyzed the development models, policies and paths of industrial transformation and economic transformation in the transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities. Through literature analysis, it can be found that innovation drive is an important factor to realize the transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities, but the efficiency of transformation and upgrading of resource-based cities not only depends on scientific and technological innovation, but also is affected by non-scientific and technological factors such as institutional, policy and management changes [17]. Therefore, it is necessary to consider all aspects of institutions, industries and elements in a comprehensive and multi-level manner to promote the transformation of resource-based cities through integration and interaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Sustainable Development Path of Resource-Based Cities—Taking Datong as an Example

2022

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Sustainable development has become a global consensus, and cities are important spatial carriers to achieve sustainable development. There are more than 200 resource-based cities in China. These cities have a single industrial and energy structure. With the gradual depletion of urban resources, they are generally facing problems such as difficult industrial transformation, lagging development of alternative industries, and serious damage to the ecological environment. They are facing multiple challenges to achieve sustainable development. Our paper creatively uses the multiple interactive feedback relationships among the systems of “driving force–pressure–state–influence–response” in resource-based cities to establish a comprehensive evaluation model for the sustainable development of resource-based cities through the comprehensive evaluation index system of sustainable development. It is concluded that the higher the coordination degree of each subsystem in the model is, the stronger the sustainable development ability of the city is, which provides new ideas and suggestions for the sustainable development of resource-based cities. The case study shows that the coordinated dispatching C value tends to 2.216, indicating that the sustainable development evaluation values of each subsystem in the model tend to be close, and the coordination between subsystems is high. This confirms the rationality of establishing a comprehensive evaluation model for the sustainable development of resource-based cities.

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“…(1) fiscal level (fiscal): taking into account the crucial role of promotion and support for the government in the development of TI, and the close relations between fiscal revenue and HGD [20], this paper uses the ratio of local government fiscal revenue to GDP in the various cities to measure the level of regional fiscal revenue. (2) Industrial structure (is): in line with the previous study [54], this study selects an indicator reflecting the degree of advanced industrial structure, namely, the ratio of the output values of the tertiary and secondary industries to represent the industry structure. (3) Population size (den): we use the population density of various cities to express the regional population size [20].…”

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Technological Innovation, Emerging Industrial Agglomeration, and High-Quality Green Development

Cao

Zhi

Xu³

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Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Exploring the transformation of the mode of economic growth has been widely concerned by researchers around the world, especially in the context of “dual carbon” goals. China’s economy is in a transition stage to high-quality green development (HGD), with technological innovation (TI) and emerging industrial agglomeration (EIA) as important drivers. However, existing studies lack a systematic empirical analysis on different dimensions of TI and its influence mechanism. In order to examine the mechanism of TI affecting HGD through EIA, this study uses the panel data in the western Yangtze River Delta of China from 2009 to 2019 to first comprehensively calculate the TI index, EIA index, and the HGD index as proxy variables for regional TI, EIA, and HGD, respectively, and then empirically examines the impact of TI on HGD and the heterogeneous impacts on HGD. Finally, we test the mediation effect of EIA between TI and HGD. The results show that TI effectively promotes regional HGD, and with the increase in the HGD index, the driving role of TI also increases. Technological innovation has heterogeneous impacts on HGD at different dimensions of innovation, time periods, and regions. Innovation output and diffusion have significant impacts on HGD, whereas innovation input and environment have insignificant impacts. The effects of TI promoting HGD are different before and after 2013. Additionally, the nexus between TI and HGD also differs across spatial distributions. The mediation effect indicates that EIA is an important mechanism for TI to release the dividends of HGD, and it explains approximately 29% of the conduction effect.

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Does Innovative Development Drive Green Economic Growth in Resource-Based Cities? Evidence From China

Cited by 28 publications

References 110 publications

EDZs and Firms’ Environment Performance: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Firms

EDZs and Firms’ Environment Performance: Empirical Evidence From Chinese Firms

Sustainable Development Path of Resource-Based Cities—Taking Datong as an Example

Technological Innovation, Emerging Industrial Agglomeration, and High-Quality Green Development

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